today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

If you require answers to the why and the what questions to believe,

you're never going to make it.

Because the Bible just doesn't give it.

And the reason I know that is because this has been my struggle of faith for my Christian life.

I've always been the kind of guy who feels like he needs to know the why and the what.

And I'm always asking God for explanation so that I can believe that he's good.

And God said, you're not getting an explanation.

You get revelation.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer of the Summit Church in Raleigh Durham, North Carolina.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. You know, the Bible is filled with fascinating stories about

heroes and villains. Real life descriptions of men and women who struggled just as we do today.

But did you know these stories aren't just intended to teach us moral lessons or simply to

entertain us? They're ultimately designed to point us to the person and the work of God the

Father and his son, Jesus Christ. Today, Pastor Jady invites us to look at one of the most

familiar characters in the Old Testament. His life teaches us that God can accomplish amazing things through ordinary

people when they finally submit to his leadership. So let's get started. Pastor J.D. Greer

titled Today's Message When the Week Becomes Strong. Judges Chapter 13, as we move through

our series here in the book of judges, we come to one of the most interesting stories in the Bible,

maybe one of the most well-known stories in the Bible, and that is the story of Samson.

Now, when I say the word Samson, what do you think of? About 40 years ago, psychologists developed these things called word association games to the idea

was they could identify your subconscious thought patterns by figuring out what word came to your

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